context: this whole godforsaken issue
EDIT: i've spun up a place to organize the fork i talked about in this post
i think it's pretty clear at this point that the yari repo is compromised. if people with push access are going to actively ignore community criticisms and forge ahead with their own plans, i don't see how we can trust that it will be maintained in the best interest of it's users.
it seems to me that the content itself is fine - i haven't seen any evidence to the contrary, and dear lord i would hope we can still trust that content. luckily, the content and the platform seem separate enough that it looks like it would be viable to fork the platform while still consuming the same content. i think this is the best course of action.
now comes the tricky part: actually getting the ball rolling on a fork. i guess this is a call to anyone reading - is there interest in maintaining said fork? is this something that people want? i'd like to pick this up, but there's not much use in forking if no one else actually wants to. or maybe someone's already started an effort, and i've not heard of it yet - in which case point me over, i'd love to help out.
i feel like this is the point where a lot of forks struggle - initial community organizing/building. in the chaos, it's not very hard to plant your flag down somewhere - but it is difficult to get everyone to see it, especially if there's multiple flags and no one knows which flag to go to. and when the forking process relies on accumulating a critical mass of users/contributors to move over, it's pretty difficult to get a fork established.
i hope we can do it. the web needs a place we can trust to get information on how it all works. unfortunately, mozilla's pretty definitively demonstrated that they either cannot, or are not willing to maintain that.
